From: RPraetorius@AspenRes.Com (Robert Praetorius) Subject: Re: pathname conversion 26 Sep 1997 12:59:26 -0700 Message-ID: References: <342BDFDE.18D3D0F8@technologist.com> Reply-To: RPraetorius@AspenRes.Com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com > From: Paul Prescod > didn't want to associate the word "win" with anything Microsoftish. With Once, a few years ago, after a frustrating day with some MS Windows 3.1 bug or another, I copied win.exe to lose.exe and henceforward used this to start up MS Windows. Sure, it was silly and petty - but it did make me feel better for awhile :-) (and more accurately reflected the behavior of the .exe at the time). -------p--a--s--s--i--o--n-----n--e--e--d--s-----a-----f--a--c--e------- "oncology recapitulates philately" --Mark Maxson Robert M. Praetorius "balance, not symmetry" --Mark Stanley work: RPraetorius@AspenRes.Com (attribution by Stigler) fun & recreation: rmp@PopJ1.MA.UltraNet.Com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".